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Fieldguide is hiring a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead its Core team building and scaling enterprise audit and assurance product experiences. The role combines approximately 70% people management with 30% coding, implementation guidance, and architectural decision-making. The manager will coordinate rapid product requests alongside multi-quarter platform investments, including versioning, design-system improvements, NPS initiatives, and internal-audit capabilities. Success requires strong full-stack expertise in React, TypeScript, Postgres, and Hasura, as well as effective coaching and remote-first operating practices. The team also expects the leader to promote safe, practical adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows.
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I would protect recurring time for one-to-ones, coaching, planning, and cross-functional alignment, while reserving focused technical time for architecture reviews, high-leverage implementation work, and unblocking difficult problems. I would avoid becoming the default owner for feature delivery, instead using coding time to improve team velocity and technical quality.
I would maintain a transparent prioritization process that separates interrupts from planned work, defines service expectations for urgent requests, and allocates explicit capacity to strategic investments. Regular roadmap reviews with product and design would make tradeoffs visible and allow the team to protect critical platform milestones.
I would start with customer and operational requirements, then facilitate lightweight design reviews that document alternatives, constraints, ownership, and expected outcomes. I would favor incremental, observable changes with clear API and data-model boundaries, while ensuring the team addresses performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
I would begin with practical, low-risk use cases such as test generation, code explanation, documentation drafts, and developer workflow automation. I would establish guidance on approved tools, data handling, human review, testing, and security, then measure whether the practices improve cycle time and quality before scaling them.
I would first learn the team's existing strengths, delivery patterns, and pain points through one-to-ones and observation. I would introduce changes only where they solve a clear problem, set measurable expectations, and empower senior engineers to lead improvements while providing consistent feedback, recognition, and growth opportunities.
About Us:
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance). Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We’re based in San Francisco, CA and backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.
We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other’s growth.
As an early stage start-up employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by eliminating up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.
About the Role
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager for the Core team at Fieldguide. This team builds and scales core product experiences for Enterprise customers, covering a broad set of work across methodologies, product improvements, and larger platform investments. The team handles both a steady stream of smaller product requests and longer-term strategic initiatives, with current focus areas including versioning, design system work, NPS improvement, and scaling audit capabilities into internal audit. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can balance people management with technical depth.
What You’ll Do
Lead a full-stack engineering team focused on core Enterprise product development
Manage and support engineers while helping the team execute across multiple parallel workstreams
Stay close to the code and contribute to architectural decisions
Help the team operate effectively in a remote-first environment
Drive strong engineering execution across both fast-turn product requests and multi-quarter initiatives
Bring an AI-native mindset and help the team adopt effective, safe ways of using AI in engineering workflows
Who You Are
An experienced engineering leader who is excited to be both a manager and a technical contributor
Comfortable in a role that is roughly 70% management and 30% hands-on coding
Able to code, guide implementation, and weigh in on architectural decisions
Strong in modern full-stack development, especially with React, TypeScript, Postgres, and Hasura
Effective in environments with many concurrent priorities and cross-functional requests
Strong coach and operator who can support a high-functioning, established team
Energized by building with AI tools and helping teams develop practical processes for using AI well
Bonus Points
Familiarity with audit, compliance, or adjacent workflow-heavy product domains
Experience introducing team-level best practices for AI-assisted development
Experience working effectively on a distributed, remote-first team
More about Fieldguide:
Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:
Fearless – Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.
Fast – Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection.
Lovable – Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences.
Owners – Execute & run the business with ownership.
Win-win – Create mutual value & earn trust for life.
Inclusive – Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.
Some of our benefits include:
Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
Flexible PTO
401k
Wellness benefits, including a bundle of free therapy sessions
Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
Flexible work schedules
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